I started building a new league starter (hopefully no balance changes to SC) and think that I have a pretty refined idea for budget Shield Crush utilizing some cheap uniques. Watchers Eye (Single Mod) is really the only item that may be expensive to work towards as a goal in the first week, but impale is pretty non-meta right now. Overall nothing too crazy or innovative but think its worthy of a league start.

POB has no cluster, gem quality, flasks, Eldritch mods, or berserk buff.

Amazing shields are pretty cheap or easy to craft with Rog

Should be able to hit 5 Mil DPS by end of week 1 or maybe start of week 2.

*Defenses*

50/50 block and spell block

5k+ life

50% evasion

100% spell suppression (once eldritch mods are added or better rolls on gear)

Good amount of armor/phys reduction

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There are tons of options to improve and min/mix to push DPS and survive with investment, but I wanted to see if anyone saw any glaring holes, budget item upgrades, or tree changes that would fit in well with this.

POB:

https://pastebin.com/r3RtALEY